Stony Brook launching campus bus GPS app

Students at Stony Brook University will soon have a more accurate way of figuring how late for class they’ll be.

As part of a suggestion made by the university’s Transportation and Parking Student Advisory Committee last year, the school will be implementing GPS tracking on five campus buses allowing students to track the location of the buses on their smartphones .
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University administrators reached out to research scientists at the school’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology to create the app that tracks real-time school transit bus and shuttle locations, as well as passenger occupancy.

The pilot program will begin later this month, with the mobile application planned for release this summer for iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

The technology will be phased in in three stages, beginning later this month. Full implementation on all bus routes will occur by 2013.